Too Much Tech on Travel

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Technology Thursday

Technology Thursday is on a short break as I've been traveling. But I'd thought I'd share the absurdity of just how much technology my husband and I thought we needed on our recent 7-day car trip with our almost-one-year-old. Let's see... For my son we brought:

• a baby monitor and two receivers
• a breast pump and all the accoutrements

For us, we had:

• one smart phone each
• car charger for each smart phone
• GPS device
• one laptop for me, TWO laptops for my husband
• car charger for the laptops
• 2 regular chargers for the laptops
• one iPod each
• car charger for the iPod
• one iPodtouch each
• small iPod speakers
• cable to connect iPod to car speakers
• two cameras, battery chargers and extra batteries along with memory cards (2 different kinds)

And this doesn't include the huge barrel of toys, sleep tent, and stroller for the boy. I'm sure I forget a few things we brought along for ourselves as well. It's way too much, of course. And someday we'll figure out how to leave more stuff behind. Traveling by car (as opposed to by plane) allows this sort of craziness because there's always room for just one more small gadget. As it turns out, though, our car was packed to the gills for this trip, making me seriously consider another kind of new technology: the dreaded minivan. Hmmm.

Comments

[Dan Rothman]

You forgot your Atek OnBoard Travel Keyboard.

[Katherine]

I love this post. I was just saying to a friend how sometimes I feel like a cyborg -- between the breast pump with all its tubes and wires, the laptop and accessories with all their plugs... it's only a matter of time before I myself get some kind of technological implant.